Heathrow Airport Third runway options fiasco

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Rate this postAir traffic requirements for Britain  are today’s PoliNews*1 subject and, for once, Boris is right. Dave, as usual is wrong and incapable of vision. This blog, and my book ‘The Normal Curve‘, are largely about how and why the party political system is incapable of rational thought. We need, instead, a system  of infrastructure and resource planning that can think 30-50 years into the future. Time after time cockups of such gravity have been made and none of

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Social housing: latest measures will fail, and why

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Rate this postSorry – no jokes in this article – just had to write it because I cannot believe the shallow incompetence of the Tory coalition policy claptrap – grrr. The think tank Policy Exchange says “Social housing in expensive areas of England should be sold off and the money used to finance the building of new homes in cheaper areas” Neil O’Brien, (PPE Oxford – say no more…) director of the think tank Policy Exchange, said he does not believe

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